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Can you spot the truth and the error in each of the
following 20 statements? As they stand, each statement is something that is 'trending' now, and these perspectives are contributing to the demise of missions in our day. There is some truth in these claims--and much more error. Knowing truth from error in these statements is 'Missions 101.'
Missions is not from the West to the rest.It is from everywhere to everywhere.There are no longer ‘mission fields.’
We really no longer need to go anywhere for
mission work: through immigration, the world is coming to ‘us.’
Mission is really everything the Church does in ministry. It is preaching, translating, teaching, church planting, compassion ministries, development work--everything.
We are all missionaries.Missions is not just for a select group of professional
missionaries.
Missions is expensive.Support should go to nationals, not Western
missionaries.
Our ministry and mission should be where we are,
not on the other sid…

The Church: 13. Comparing Aristotle’s
Politics[1]and PaulIntroduction Paul’s
understanding of the church can be fruitfully compared to the wider, Greek
philosophical discussion of the state in antiquity. This is in part because the Church functions
as an alternative ‘citizenship’: ‘But our
citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ’ (Phl. 3.20). It
is also in part because politics involved an understanding of the family, just
as, for Paul, the Church involved directives regarding the family (including
slaves). The present essay comes in the
form of a table in which I offer suggestions regarding the similarities and
differences between Paul’s writings and an important philosophical work, Aristotle’s
Politics, written some 400 years
before Paul. If Paul did not for some
reason know the text of this work, he most certainly would have been party to
discussions related to its contents.
Through such a comparison, we are able to p…